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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 5, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Unauthorized picket closes Ruttan mine by Bob Lowery free press Northern reporter Thompson Sherritt Gordon mines Ltd s Multan mine near Leaf rapids was shut Down Friday night by unauthorized picketers protest ing a delay in contract negotiations. Reports on the number of picketers vary from 15 to 50. One observer said it was hard to distinguish Between them and interested observers. About 440 hourly rated employees work at the Ruttan mining operation which includes a Large open pit a Mill and the beginnings of underground development about 15 Miles Northeast of Leaf rapids. The mine operates seven Days a week. Negotiations to renew the United steelworkers of America contract which expired May 31, Are still in Progress. Last sunday at Lynn Lake and monday at Leaf rapids Union meetings agreed the negotiating team should have another week to reach a settlement. A Union spokesman in Lynn Lake where negotiations continue said a Settle ment seemed close after a Day Long meeting Friday. Talks Are to resume at 2 . Saturday and carry on through the weekend if Nec Essary. The 800-member Union plans to hold information meetings again sunday and monday and Call a ratification vote a if there is a tentative agreement. It is unclear How Long the unauthorized strike will continue and what effect it May have on negotiations. A United steel workers official said that while the picketing was t authorized by the Union the men. And women involved had a Legal right to picket. No attempt was made to blockade the Road leading to the mine he said but everyone was stopped and. Given information on the picketing. The Union spokesman said no one in the bargaining unit would Likely Cross the information picket line. Winnipeg free press City news in package Tours make Ideal vacation trips 946-2212 saturday june 5, 1976 2nd class mall registration number 0286 rain aids firefighters in 23 Northern blazes Thompson Man. Staff rain the Forest fire fighter s Best Friend covered Large sections of Northern Manitoba Friday helping control 23 fires. Thousand acre fires at Lebrix and hairy lakes were stagnated provincial Conser vation officer Denny Allen Man gets 8 years for Pencil stabbing by Scott Edmonds free press courts reporter e r v i n e Samuel Kelbert con vie Ted of attempted murder in the Pencil stabbing of his police Jailer was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison. Repeated outbursts from Kolbert punctuated the sentencing. Chief Justice a. S. Dewar of the Manitoba court of Queen s Bench issued several warnings to the 33 year old Man. Kelbert diagnosed As a paranoid schizophrenic complained about the Way his trial had been conducted and said just before chief Justice do War sentenced him that he planned to Appeal the conviction and ask for a new trial. He was convicted May 14, by an Assize court jury of stabbing Winnipeg police const. Ernest Dean in the neck with a Pencil in what the court was told had been an attempt to Force the authorities into giving him a trial on an earlier charge. Kelbell testifying in his own defence said he had spent several years in men Tal hospitals and was Only recently released on probation from Selkirk where he had been sent following a charge for pointing a firearm. May 13, 1975, he walked into the Public safety building to fill out an application for a Beer waiter s licence and was taken into custody and lodged in the fourth floor lockup where the stabbing occurred later the same Day. Kolbert said police gave no explanation for his detention. Crown counsel Charles Newcombe said Friday that the attack on const. Dean a s premeditated vicious and solely directed at attracting Public attention since it appeared Kelbert had t seen the officer before the incident. Or. Newcombe said that Kelbert had failed in the past to co operate with rehabilitation attempts and that when he was released from the mental Hospital the last time he immediately threw away the medication he had been Given. Saying doctors no longer thought any purpose could be served by returning Kolbert to the Hospital and that fur ther outbursts in the Community were possible or. New Combe asked for the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Defence lawyer Derek Booth said that Kelbell had carried on a Normal student life until he left High school he worked for his father and at the same time As a cab Driver taking Pep pills to stay awake or. Booth told the judge. The Pep pills coupled with the Onset of an epileptic condition contributed to Kel Bart s present mental state the defence lawyer said. He said Kolbert who had spent five years in and out of mental institutions on the 1970 firearm conviction was provoked to desperation when he was again locked up at the Public safety building. Or. Booth said he genuinely Felt it the stabbing was the Only Way he could get a Kilbort interjected. Said in a Telephone interview from Norway House. No communities or resorts were threatened As the fires were in Muskeg Bush country or. Allen said an eight acre fire at Molson Lake East of Norway House was brought under control by a Ter bombers and 2.5 pm. Of rain. All Thompson area fires were under control Friday. Some firefighters have been withdrawn while others Are still cleaning up the Sites. Harvey Boyle regional for Ester at the Pas said in a Telephone interview Manitoba Forest fires North of the 53rd parallel this year could number More than the 200 to 250 average. So far 108 fires have been recorded with the most difficult months july and August still to come. He fears the fire count could climb to 400 this season about equal the record in or. Boyle said in All of Manitoba by june 3, 1974, there had been 25 fires but by that Date in 1975 there had been 104. There have been 375 in 1976, he said. The sad thing about the fires in Northern Manitoba is that until june 1 we had 9fi fires All Man made. This week we had 12 others caused by while the rain has helped temporarily or. Boyle thought More soldering fires would break out As soon As the Sun comes out and the winds Start blowing. Monday to scene lists transposed in today s to scene Book let the listings for monday afternoon and monday eve Ning have been transposed. Please look at Page 25 for the afternoon listings and at Page 24 for the evening list Ings. New Alliance head regrets time waste by Cecil Rosner free press staff writer the Public service Alli Ance of Canada s fourth National convention ended Fri Day with its new president saying the five Day meeting accomplished Little. Andrew Stewart of Ottawa succeeded Claude Edwards As president after an election in the Holiday inn Friday told a news Confer ence the convention wasted too much time discussing in t e r n a 1 rather than policy matters. We re not going to get too much new direction from this convention and i feel sick about or. Stewart said. Delegates discussed re ports from Only two of the convention s committees Constitution and finance and dealt with fewer than a third of More than 600 resolutions. Or. Stewart 43, said Many items would be referred to the Union s Board of directors. He was disappointed the convention did t discuss the gut Issue collective bargaining. Or. Stewart who had been executive vice president Defeated William Doherty and Gordon Campbell to win the presidency. The hard fought Campaign ended with or. Stewart re ceiving1 181 votes or. Do Lirly 126 and or. Campbell eight. Most observers were surprised the result was so decisive. Or. Doherty was re elected first executive vice president. The Alliance s next Conven Tion be held in Vancouver in 1979, should Deal with elections sooner so delegates will have a Day or two without politicking or. Stewart said. He called it a sad commentary on the proceedings for the Conven Tion to have spent so much time on constitutional and budgetary issues. A new Brunswick native or. Stewart is the second p r e s i d e n t of the member Alliance formed in 1966. Some Union sources said or. Edwards May be appointed to the Federal Public service staff relations Board. Or. Stewart said his first objective is muting disparate elements within the Alliance which represents More than 80 per cell of Federal civil servants including taxation officers defence employees customs officials prison guards general labourers and others. Or. Stewart a Sac member since its founding wholeheartedly supports co operation with other Canad an Public service unions. As soon As the executive of the new National Union of provincial government employees is installed a meeting will be arranged with it and with the Canadian Union o Public employees or. Stewart said. Another High priority or. Stewart singled out was the Issue of coalition bargaining within the Union. Sac is the certified bargaining1 agent for 84 units about half of which have contracts with the same employer the Federal government. Andrew Stewart or. Stewart declined to give his views on the Canad an labor Congress s general strike program. He said he could t predict How his Union third largest in Canada might react if the Csc Calls a one Day strike. News quiz on Page 19 Takeo Miki general Suharto and Ferdinand Marcos Are some of the personalities you la find today in the names in the news Section of your news quiz which appears on Page 19. Turn to the quiz to see if you can correctly identify these and other news makers. You la also get a Chance to answer a Vari Ety o National and inter National news questions. The free press pub Lishes your news quiz each week As a service to area students. Geraldine Roschuk 10, had to climb j ladder to Harvest tomatoes from a Plant frown m her fourth Grade classroom at Lansdowne school. The eight foot Plant was grown from a seed planted in the classroom last october and has far supplied seven tomatoes to Aldine and her Pete Ryszynski the classroom teacher who organized the project says it has been a great Experiment for the class and he expects that the Plant will yield quite a few More tomatoes. Manitoba s jobs far welfare cold shouldered Desjardins Crooks beat lottery staff la claims by David Lee free press legislative reporter Manitoba s top Lotery officials should be replaced be cause they can t control the professionals and Crooks taking advantage of the province s lotteries a progressive conservative la said Friday. Renewing his Call for an inquiry into lottery operations Wally Mckenzie r o b 1 i n said professional gamblers and criminals con Sider provincial lotteries be there s More and More of them coming Here All the time because they know we have a second rate opera he said. And i can t see us getting mixed up with this kind of m r. Mckenzie said the staff Aow running Manitoba s lotteries particularly the Western Canada and Western express Don t know How to handle professional Crooks and gamblers. Someone like a former senior ramp officer should take Over the provincial sweep stakes program he said. At least a person like an ramp officer would know something about the ways and method of operation of these professionals it would be a Heck of a lot bet Ter than what we have right if the Manitoba govern ment refuses to change its the Manitoba government got a cold shoulder at this week s Federal provincial so Cial Security conference on its proposal to promote employment As an alternative to welfare health minister Larry Desjardins of Mani Toba said Friday. The minister of National health and welfare Marc Lalonde was t prepared to consider this or. Desjardins told the Manitoba legislature As he re ported on the meeting of Wel f a r e ministers in Ottawa monday and tuesday. We would like to see Ottawa change its Cost sharing arrangements in a Way which makes it easier for the provinces to promote employment As an alternative to he said. L. R. Bud Sherman pc fort Garry said his party supports the Manitoba government s proposal. Outside the House or. Desjardins said he thought the Federal government was politically afraid of such a plan. It would t Force people to work it would be selective he said. We d sooner see people earning a living and having their Pride and not living at the expense of the taxpayer. 1 think it would Lead to a healthier and happier Sci or. Desjardins said Mani Toba wanted the Federal government to contribute the Money it spends on welfare for those who would use work incentive programs. He repealed his govern ment s support for the Princi ple of the proposed Federal social Security and social services plan but said he is still concerned the Federal for Sale warning issued the Consumers Bureau Manitoba is asking business owners to be on the Alert for approaches by an Ontario based firm offering to list their Enterprise for Sale. The firm Caldwell Adver Tising and business Consul Tants corporation of Canada asks for payment of an immediate retainer and subsequent commission on sales. Consumers Bureau advises that the Hamilton based firm is not registered with the Manitoba companies Branch and not licensed to do Busi Ness Here under the con Sumer Protection act. Representatives of the company have appeared in Winnipeg Thompson and Winnipegosis. Salesmen have collected retainers in Mani Toba ranging from to anyone approach Cal by representatives of the company i s urged to Contact the Bureau immediately or to Call the ramp. Government to u 1 d try to achieve it by reducing its share of the costs in other in come Security programs. The clue came when or. Lalonde said the new income support plan would Cost million in the first year half the amount of the saving to the Federal government by de indexing family allow ances or. Desjardins said. The Federal government was ready in 1975 to put up to billion into income support supplements he said. Or. Desjardins said he believed or. Lalonde was sin Cere but lost the fight in the Federal Cabinet. Or. Sherman told the legis lature his party shared the suspicions about Federal funding we d like gestures of sincerity before we buy what might be a pig in a he said. Or. Desjardins said Mani Toba backed by Saskatchewan wants the Federal government in any new Legisla Tion to reaffirm its responsibility for health and social to treaty indians and not to shot financial responsibility to the prov inces by implementing its discredited White paper on Indian affairs the Federal government said that would be discussed at the first ministers meet ing june 1 and 15, he said. The White paper proposed the provinces deliver ser vices and be reimbursed by the Federal government but it was withdrawn because natives objected. Lottery staff the Roblin la said it should pull out of lot Tery operations and i mean Quick. We re in the big time now we re up in the big he said. We Are dealing with some pretty smart Crooks and they can t be handled properly by the lottery staff that s in there right or. Mckenzie said the top prize win in the Western express draw May 19, by a group of investors who bought the ticket after the draw was indicative of How poorly lottery operations Are run. Despite changes announced by health minister Larry Desjardins or. Mckenzie said it was obvious further improvements Are needed. What we need is a full in Quiry into this whole mat he said. Then we can find out if we have capable people and i Don t think we have and maybe we can make it in the legislature earlier or Desjardins minister responsible for lotteries in Manitoba ignored or. Mckenzie s Call for a lottery in Quiry his. Second such plea of the session. Or. Desjardins said the conservative la was again presenting half cocked ideas about the lottery and was doing Manitoban Little favor by his repeated state ments. Saunders receiver Likely Mac Man the Manitoba development corporation has asked the courts to approve the appointment of Murray Florence receiver and manager for Saunders air Craft Ltd. Or. Florence is on staff at the development corporation. In a statement of claim filed Friday in the Manitoba court of Queen s Bench the corporation also asks that the courts approve the immediate Sale of Saunders s assets. Mines minister Sidney Green has already admitted that the government s million investment in Saunders is a total however the minister responsible for the development corporation has added that the Sale of assets would help to offset some o the losses. Saunders has five aircraft in storage. Two More repossessed from their purchaser a South american airline based in arc expected to arrive soon. Besides the aircraft there Are some miscellaneous sup plies which May also be sold. The development Corpora Tion holds four debenture Bonds totalling million the statement of claim says and is exercising its right under the terms of the debentures to appoint a receiver. Or. Florence was appointed May 19, the statement said. Sydney Parsons chairman of the the development corporation said in a Telephone interview that the Corpora Tion the major shareholder in Saunders was now asking for the formal approval of the courts. The province owns 81.7 per cent of the company s 8.7 million shares. The Gimli Plant was closed dec. 31 after an announce ment last june that the gov e r n m e n t was culling off funding because Saunders failed to get an american certification of airworthiness for the St-28. Poor productivity forcing Lynn Lake mine to shut Down Lynn Lake Man. Staff the Farley Nickel Copper mine will close after 23 years operation James Mac Lellan general manager of Sherritt Gordon mines limit e d s Manitoba operations said Here Friday. Or. Maclellan said the mine will be closed because of poor productivity. Its production has been running 12 tons of Ore a Day Only a third of its rated capacity. In the last 18 months far Ley has operated at a loss in excess of million including a million deficit in 1976. In october 1975, Sherritt Gordon contracted the mine s underground operation out to Patrick Harrison co. Ltd., a mining development firm in a n Effort to extend the mine s economic life. Initial results were encouraging but losses escalated rapidly in the past two months and led to the shutdown or. Mac Lellan said. He said 199 Sherritt Gor Don employees will be affected and the company will offer them jobs at Fox mine 28 Miles East of Here and at Multan mine near Leaf rapids Man. Wally Sabaroff president of United steelworkers of America local 5757, said 91 Union members will be involved in the move. There Are 50 jobs available at Fox and Ruttan. The rest of the men will be kept working at Farley for the next six months on Salvage opera or. Sabaroff said. Or Maclellan also said the Mill and surface Plant will be mothballed for a reasonable period so it will be available if a new mine were discovered within an econom i c a 11 y profitable distance from Lynn Lake. Sherritt Gordon s mining division Headquarters will stay at Lynn Lake As will the employees at the Fox mine. Or. Sabaroff said it the shutdown is something that s been hovering Over us for about the last 10 years. The company has Given us the facts on it periodically and our men of the Job have been watching he said the announce ment s timing was unfortunate coming while Sherritt Gordon is negotiating a new contract with the steel workers Here and at Ruttan mines. He did t think there was any wrong intention on the company s part so far As the timing was concerned. Mayor Walter Perepeluk of Lynn Lake said the closing will Hurt the town. He expects the population to drop to from before the Ruttan mine started up and our people started moving to Leaf rapids the population was 3.500. The problem is the tax Load slays about the same whether you have or inhabitants but it s car ried by fewer mayor Perepeluk said. But our real problem in Lynn Lake is that exploration has almost dried up since governments have taken so much of the incentive from people wanting to risk investing in mining ;